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Friday, June 6, 2025

Undergraduate Student Spotlight: Adam Specogna

Meet Adam! Originally from Ottawa, Adam is going into his fourth year of an Honours BA in Law with a concentration in Criminal Law and Social Order. Read more below about Adam's journey at Carleton: What led you to decide to pursue your BA at Carleton?  Many factors drove me to pursue my undergraduate... More

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

New article by Ummni Khan, “In ‘Paying For It’, ex-lovers reimagine friendship, family and the meaning of sex work”

We are pleased to share that Associate Professor, Ummni Khan recently had an article published in The Conversation titled, "In Paying For It, ex-lovers reimagine friendship, family and the meaning of sex work." You can read this article... More

Monday, May 12, 2025

Student Spotlight: Erica Chen

Meet Erica Chen! Erica is a PhD student under the supervision of Evelyn Maeder and was also awarded SSHRC this year! See what lead Erica to pursue her PhD in Legal Studies at Carleton and her experience in our program! What lead you to pursue your PhD in Legal Studies at Carleton? I was... More

Thursday, May 8, 2025

Christiane Wilke wins FPGA Teaching Excellence Award

We are thrilled to share that faculty member Christiane Wilke has been awarded a Teaching Excellence Award as part of the annual FPGA's Excellence Awards! These awards recognize overall excellence in teaching and in teaching innovation in the Faculty of Public and Global Affairs. Christiane has been a faculty member in our department since... More

Friday, May 2, 2025

Student Spotlight: Ellen Yarr

Meet Ellen Yarr! Ellen is a 2nd year MA student under the supervision of Megan Gaucher in the thesis stream. Ellen will be completing her thesis defence within the next few weeks and was also awarded SSHRC back in the fall of 2024! Check out what lead Ellen to pursue her MA here in... More

Friday, April 25, 2025

Undergraduate Student Spotlight: Toufic Chehab

Meet Toufic Chehab! Toufic will be graduating this spring with a Bachelor of Ars Honours with a major in Law. Originally from Montreal, Toufic had to overcome some obstacles, which include a visual impairment he sustained while still in high school. Determined not to let his disability slow him down, Toufic set his sights... More

Thursday, April 24, 2025

New co-authored article with Christiane Wilke and others

We are pleased to share a new article that has been co-authored by faculty member, Christiane Wilke, along with former PhD student Helyeh Doutaghi, former MA students Hijaab Yahya and Leah Wilson and NPSIA PhD student, Basir Yosufi. The title of this article is Privileged and Other Civilians: Hierarchies of Credibility, Security, and Compensation... More

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Diksha Kale wins the 2025 Summer Student EDI Research Award

We are pleased to share that PhD Student Diksha Kale has be awarded the 2025 Summer Student EDI Research Award! This award gives students the opportunity to receive funding for a research project that they get to work on full time throughout the summer months. Diksha's project is titled, “Leaving Home: Using Interactive Fiction... More

Friday, April 4, 2025

William Hebert named as a recipient of the CU-CUASA Special Fund for EDI Research and Pedagogical Innovation

Congratulations to Professor William Hebert, who has been named a recipient of the CU-CUASA Special Fund for EDI Research and Pedagogical Innovation! This innovation supports and enhances research excellence and pedagogical innovation across Carleton undertaken by members of equity-deserving groups and/or on topics that hold equity, diversity and... More

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Chet Mitchell Lecture Recap

On Friday March 28th, we were pleased to welcome to campus Michelle Douglas, a Carleton Alumni, veteran and Executive Director of the LGBT Purge Fund. Michelle shared her incredible story in this semester's Chet Mitchell Memorial Lecture titled, “Canada’s LGBT Purge: Is History Repeating Itself?" We were also honoured to have in attendance,... More

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

New book by Umut Ozsu

We are pleased to share that faculty member, Umut Ozsu, recently published a book titled, "Completing Humanity". More details can be found here. Umut also gave a talk about his new book last month at Yale University! You can find a recording of this talk here.... More

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

New publication from PhD student Carolyn Laude

We are pleased to share that PhD student, Carolyn Laude has had a chapter published in a new edited collection! Carolyn's publication is titled, "Balancing acts and breakthroughs: Canada's journey with linguistic diversity, indigenous rights, and the UN Declaration to inspire public service innovation" and can be read in full... More

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